Published 13:59 IST, November 19th 2019

T10 League 2019: Mitchell McCleneghan's Stone Cold Steve Austin GIF after Chris Lynn's 91

Have a look at Mitchell McClenaghan & Chris Lynn's exchange on Twitter as the two joke around their latest T10 League 2019 encounter. Read further for details.

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New Zealand pace bowler Mitchell McClenaghan took to Twitter this morning to commend his Maratha Arabians teammate Chris Lynn's destructive innings in an Abu Dhabi T10 League match, yesterday. Lynn missed out on being first centurion of T10 League on Monday when his team's innings ended with him being nine runs short of three figures. Let us take a look at funny exchange that happened on Twitter.

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Stone Cold or Chris Lynn?

Chris Lynn has often been likened to or celebrities who sport bald-hairstyles like actor Vin Diesel and wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Fellow cricketers often make jokes on ir social media where y compare Lynn to se celebrities. After Chris Lynn's 30-ball destruction of Team Abu Dhabi, teammate Mitchell McClenaghan posted to Twitter and congratulated Lynn's contribution to team.

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Lynn was quick to reply to tweet and commended Kiwi quick for his impressive GIF choice.

Lynnsanity in Abu Dhabi!

Chris Lynn was leading Maratha Arabians against Team Abu Dhabi as regular-captain Yuvraj Singh was out because of a back spasm. Lynn made most of this oppurtunity and led from front, scoring a unrealistic 91* out of 30 balls. He and Adam Lyth propelled Arabians to 138. Ben Laughlin was Team Abu Dhabi's best bowler with a single wicket and an ecomy of 7.50.

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Team Abu Dhabi tried to chase total down but 10 overs were too less of a period for Moeen Ali-led side to get to 138. y fell short by 24 runs. ir best batsman in chase was Englishman Luke Wright with his 40. Arabians' best performing bowler was Mitchell McClenaghan with his one wicket and 8.50 ecomy.

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12:31 IST, November 19th 2019